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- catalog abstract ""It has long been assumed that Japan's closed country policy meant that the country was isolated from the influence of the outside, and in particular, the western world. However, this study of 18th century Japan, using sources wholly unstudied since their writing, reveals the profound influence that the introduction of western technology and scientific instruments including glass, lenses and mirrors, had on Japanese notions of sight, and how this change in perception was reflected most clearly in popular culture. Screech offers interpretations of 18th century thought through popular objects, and makes propositions which many scholars considered groundbreaking on the book's first publication in 1996. The conclusions reached here have yet to be substantially challenged."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12499585.
- catalog contributor b12499586.
- catalog contributor b12499587.
- catalog created "2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2002.".
- catalog description ""It has long been assumed that Japan's closed country policy meant that the country was isolated from the influence of the outside, and in particular, the western world. However, this study of 18th century Japan, using sources wholly unstudied since their writing, reveals the profound influence that the introduction of western technology and scientific instruments including glass, lenses and mirrors, had on Japanese notions of sight, and how this change in perception was reflected most clearly in popular culture. Screech offers interpretations of 18th century thought through popular objects, and makes propositions which many scholars considered groundbreaking on the book's first publication in 1996. The conclusions reached here have yet to be substantially challenged."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "1 Trade and Culture in the Eighteenth Century 6 -- 2 The "Batavian Temperament" and its Critics 31 -- 3 Mechanics and Motions 61 -- 4 Machinery for Pictures 94 -- 5 Seeing In 133 -- 6 The Eye and the Lens 166 -- 7 The View from On High 212.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 290-299) and index.".
- catalog extent "xxiii, 305 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0824825942 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press,".
- catalog spatial "Japan.".
- catalog subject "709/.52/09033 21".
- catalog subject "Art and technology Japan.".
- catalog subject "Art, Japanese Edo period, 1600-1868.".
- catalog subject "Art, Japanese European influences.".
- catalog subject "N7353.5 .S4 2002".
- catalog tableOfContents "1 Trade and Culture in the Eighteenth Century 6 -- 2 The "Batavian Temperament" and its Critics 31 -- 3 Mechanics and Motions 61 -- 4 Machinery for Pictures 94 -- 5 Seeing In 133 -- 6 The Eye and the Lens 166 -- 7 The View from On High 212.".
- catalog title "The lens within the heart : the western scientific gaze and popular imagery in later Edo Japan / Timon Screech.".
- catalog type "text".